Originally Posted by
sailingfun
We have a limit of 6 or 7 shortcalls a month. That would not change. Once a reserve was out in the system however I would expect the company would keep him out there via reroutes for a long time.
The pilot would have to acknowledge a long call assignment 10 hours prior to be legal for the trip. That would be voluntary per the contract.
Interesting. So if a pilot does NOT acknowledge a trip, he is not legal for it.
Why would any LC reserve ever acknowledge any trip then? If this is about not being called within the 10 hours prior, it seems as if LC reserve is a license to sit home and do nothing, while watching the SC reserves get rerouted. The only problem there is that you cannot be rerouted infdefinitely, so the net result would be a need for vastly more reserves, and keeping as many as possible on SC. It's a math problem at this point. This will have a lot of value in an upcoming section 6 I would think....
To be truthful, I don't think this is going to have a good outcome. I still think we should be careful for what we are asking.....